He's based on frilled lizards.
Frilled lizards live on trees, so Kape is the most comfortable when he can be somewhere high up. Trees, roofs, on top of cabinets and rafters... Man prefers to sleep and just hang out off ground.
Kape very much dislikes pine trees. Too sticky, too prickly. He will still climb them, but he will complain. Loud. And often.
Frilled lizards eat bugs and other invertebrates, and at Kape's home village his diet was mostly bugs. Nowadays, he doesn't remember how to prepare bugs properly, though. Doesn't stop him from trying. It's not just him - the world outside his homeland doesn't have good bugs, you know?
His bronze dragon ancestry means lightning courses through his veins. It glows in his frills and throat when he's angry, and his magic has naturally shaped around the element.
Lost from his homeland and abandoned by the one who brought him here, Kape has spent the last fifteen years watching how the so-called "civilized world" works, and he has come to the conclusion that it doesn't. Destroy the goverment. Eat the rich. ACAB.
I really like the idea that Kape also has levels on bard. The band Poor Man's Poison gives me big anti-authoritarian Kape vibes, especially Let's Go! and Give And Take.
Kape is a drifter, just wandering around with all his posessions in one bag, trying to have a good time.
Despite the strong feelings towards the ones in charge, Kape is a fairly chill and silly dude. Very social, very kinds, somewhat strange with how little he cares about social norms and acting "normal".
He will definitely accept alcohol, tobacco or other substances if offered. His happy place is sitting at the top of a tree and smoking weed while watching the sun set.
This man is gay and flamboyant in his own way. At the same time, though, he is a lazy hippie who forgets to take showers.
Deep inside, Kape is sad that he has lost his home. His culture. His family. It's somewhere out there, but he doesn't know the name people outside his little village use for it. Sometimes, in the quietest moments, he tries to remember what home is... and cries when he realizes he has lost even more to the years away. He should never have accepted the offer of "better life in a world full of wonders". He was still a kid, still too naive to realize he shouldn't trust those pretty eyes and the hands that were too soft to have ever done a day of labor...
Gotta love me a comedic relief character with hidden sadness
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